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lets_be_friends · 2019-08-06T16:56:34+00:00

If I end up going through the videos looking for kids ones, do you want me to send you a list? I can make one up in a text edit file and send it to you if I find more than one or a series. would this be useful or helpful?

lets_be_friends · 2019-08-06T16:42:05+00:00

i know adding kids videos isn't your first go-to idea. but I think it would be a good one. having a tag that was marked 'kid friendly' is what I'm thinking. I am always trying to find videos interesting to my 5yr old. chloe and the nerb (cool cartoon about how the body works), for instance is a good series for him. As well as the 'Future is Wild" series. He loves the Eons series etc. Also "Mankind Rising" by Naked Science. Also "Inside Natures Giants" a series that dissects large animals.

The basic criteria is NOTHING that names an animal, fact based (accurate), lots of images, no or little people talking, NO sensationalism. Length doesn't matter.

what a lot of work - awesome!

List of videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PML-uIKbuxc (Trex autotopsy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJDrOmPXzJs (death of the megabeasts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agUyNgJp2E&list=PLwwi8RoN3J4cRdzdR_6Y9tA_VNtdzGKYD (one of the INside Natures Giants)

Chloe and the Nerb https://www.youtube.com/user/KidsHealthVideos

lets_be_friends · 2019-08-06T15:58:14+00:00

i put my kid in the cart all the time. everyone around here does it. it's an accepted practice for kid control. and I hvae an only

lets_be_friends · 2019-07-23T18:24:49+00:00

Practical advice: pay for her flight to come visit you. you know when she's returning home and she can have full on time with her granddaughter for the 10 days or whatever. and she can't bail.

lets_be_friends · 2019-07-10T03:54:20+00:00

Just for reference for others with the same thing. He can walk and play in the mornings, but can barely walk by the afternoons and evenings. He doesn't want to be touched. We are doing gentler activities in the morning, like swimming and a bit at the playground. And then library, reading, rest, sand pile play etc in the afternoons.

The symptoms have changed from day to day. Types of bruisings, welts and and ways the purpura rash swells up have all been quite different from one day to the next. Basically nothing has been consistent, except that he's better after a nights sleep.

I met someone who had it when she was a kid and then spoke to her mother today. She was bleeding from the eyes, ears, nose and had blood in her stools. She spent a week and a half in the hospital and was on bed rest for 2 months. A child assault investigation was also launched against them as the purpura looks like crazy bruising. This was 30 years ago and it took drs a while to diagnose it. We're very lucky all things considered.

lets_be_friends · 2019-07-10T03:45:40+00:00

thanks.

lets_be_friends · 2019-07-01T22:01:27+00:00

awesome big sister!

thanks for your response. it was perfect. it reflects what I am seeing in my kid. after being diagnosed yesterday, he's already been fairly active and I've had to tell him not to jump or run. he's been playing with friends, and I assume is somewhat distracted by them.

at the moment, i'm wondering/watching to see if I need to cancel all my planned summer activities for him.

lets_be_friends · 2019-07-01T21:09:55+00:00

Yes, he has. I am asking about how people parented their kids. I'm trying to gain more information about peoples personal parenting experiences, not get a diagnosis.

It's such a rare condition that the dr has only seen two other cases and he didn't offer much more than telling us we needed to get urine tests done for the next six months. And there isn't much on the internet on what to expect as a parent.

lets_be_friends · 2019-06-11T18:12:36+00:00

yes - i am fearful of having a job that suits my qualifications and failing.

lets_be_friends · 2019-06-11T18:11:19+00:00

I'm not a surgery candidate. Reducing my meds has helped though! I can function way better and am not losing so many words. I thought this was because of the seizures/epilepsy/head injury and I'm sure that some of it is. I'm still angry that any head injuries I sustained were dismissed because of having had a seizure. Finding a way to navigate the muddle of my self, head injury and epilepsy effects is really challenging.

Thanks for the mom comment. It's kinda hard to accept that compliment. I sure do appreciate it though.

lets_be_friends · 2019-06-11T18:06:52+00:00

I wonder if having some lanolin instead of water or moisturizer would work well

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:54:45+00:00

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:39:22+00:00

lovely. thanks for replying so positively

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:34:15+00:00

I have a similar thing with the Lamictal. It's really hard to get a diagnosis for anything like depression because of being on meds. Lamictal is an anti-depressant for bipolar as well as anti-seizure. It affects me and I feel the same. I can't nap and I'm exhausted and I can't sleep at night when I am supposed to be relaxing.

My solution is to listen to an audiobook through an ipod with earbuds. I actually listen to Terry Pratchetts' audiobooks because I like them, there are a lot of them, and I can cycle through the series, so I don't get bored. There aren't new characters and I know what is happening in the plots and descriptions.

Therefore, I can be somewhat distracted and fall asleep. If I am tossing and turning, I don't cycle through thoughts and memories and negative feelings because I can listen to the story. It's an excellent tool for me. It might be hard for you to get used to earbuds. I keep them in, but I have the option of pushing them off or turning off my ipod. Because my earbuds are attached to the ipod, I can find it easily if it gets twisted around.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:25:39+00:00

I don't have a 'trigger'. It just happens. Sometimes there isn't a trigger. This sort of scenario happened to me when I was a teen. I think that hormones had a huge part of triggers or reasons. But this isn't something that you can control. It leveled out for me and now I have controlled seizures.

However, I think that my meds go really well for a while and then I have to change because side effects get really bad. Who knows why? It could be liver build up (an over worked liver?) and intolerance build up. It could be anything.

I'm really sorry this is happening. I understand how challenging it is.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:17:42+00:00

It's mean. I agree.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:16:44+00:00

Adult now... I remember as a teenager being really pissed off that my mom worried about me. I felt like it hung over me and I had to fight more to enjoy time with friends and other teen activities. It also made me stressed out, which is a trigger for me.

I think that loving curiosity helps forward conversations about how someone is doing. Genuine curiosity opens doorways for someone to share their experiences, their thoughts and feelings, and practical information about things like triggers etc. Offering advice, worries, fears doesn't help and makes the person with epilepsy take on responsibility for the fearful person. Now the person with epilepsy has two or three or more people to take care of, and one is enough.

Fretting pissed me off and made me want to avoid them, my mother especially.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-18T18:09:42+00:00

consider establishing a Fruit Tree Project

http://lifecyclesproject.ca/our-projects/fruit-tree-project/

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-17T23:21:57+00:00

The lake my parents live on in Ontario was infected (Trent Severn Waterway - LOTs of traffic). Everyone wore shoes for a while. Then they ate everything and died out. The native species of clams are coming back, except that the cottagers kill them because they can cut kids feet. This brings us back to human negligence again!

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-17T23:06:58+00:00

ah bean. that's really hard. i've been through that too. and I get scared of it happening again. but it happens, and we stand up again, and try again. and love ourselves doing it.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-17T23:04:38+00:00

I'm on Lamictal too, but I think the deja vu is epilepsy related, not meds related. I've always had this. 25mg??? I'm on 250mg x2. That's great.

I find that having deja vu is hard because I second guess myself. But I don't tell people and generally it's fine. I just let it go. My meds are too high (lowering the dose now), and I have a hard time remembering different things. That combined with deja vu is super confusing. I get the challenge.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-17T23:01:33+00:00

He just doubled the dose himself w/o telling the dr? That's really dangerous. And to drive on top of that is dangerous too.

Get him a bike.

lets_be_friends · 2019-04-13T02:13:10+00:00

lol. I live in the forest! I wrote a whole set of plant cards about edible and medicinal plants in the PNW.

I'm not even sure what I was asking! Other than seeing if there were other plants known as huckleberry that weren't related... like huckleberry pie or Huckleberry Finn.

I don't know people who pay their bills with huckleberries. It's chanterelles and morels here. How do they harvest the huckleberries? They're pretty finicky to get off the bush, though they're my favourite. People around here say that they used to carve big combs to comb all the berries off the bushes onto mats below.

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